This an old short article originally posted around 2016. Also available on UV SYSTEMS website: https://www.uvsystems.com/blogs/news/long-wave-filters-are-now-more-expensive-400-lw-filter-glass-is-no-longer-made By Don Newsome; UV SYSTEMS, Inc. Kokomo Opalescent Glass...
Ever want to store your glow rocks in boxes, but don't want to pay for flats? Do what I do - collect copy paper boxes at your place of business. Put the bottom of the box into the lid, then trace around it with a pencil. Use a carpet knife and yardstick to cut along...
Hungary has some really outstanding localities for unique hyalites: Monok, Gyöngyössolymos, and recently Tarcal. Specimens from this locality tend to be the biggest, glassiest and the best from Hungary! The downside is that the andesite quarry uses explosives, which...
Table of Contents Quantum States of the FMS – From the President by Philip S. Neuhoff 1–3 Treasurer’s Report CY 2025 by Andrew D. Silver 4 The “Children’s” New Condo by Conrad North 5–7 The New Fluorescent Mineral Display at the Yale Peabody Museum by Harold Moritz 8...
Table of Contents Long Lake Zinc Mine, Parham, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada by Jon Amsterdam 1–5 Silver Crater Mine, Faraday Township, Ontario, Canada: A Historic Uranium Prospect and Source of Exquisite Betafite Crystals by Sean Stimac 6–8 Editor’s Note—The...
Table of Contents Wollastonite from the Gouverneur Talc Company #4 Quarry by Howie Green 1–3 The Valentine Quarry Gallery by Howie Green 4–8 Worldwide Prehnite Gallery by Howie Green 9–10 Rose Road—The WSK and the PDM by Howie Green 11–23 Bush Farm, Gouverneur, St....
A presentation on COLOR & ENERGY... Learn the scientific concepts behind why rocks glow in the dark. This video provides an in-depth look into the science behind fluorescent minerals, presented by Bob Oblack. It covers the science of color and energy, luminescence and...
Table of Contents From the Editor—New Jersey’s Other “Others” by Howie Green 1–4 The Fluorescent Minerals of the Hoboken Serpentine Body by Howie Green 5–6 Informal Observations on Some Fluorescent Minerals of Castle Point by Edward W. Johnson 7–8 New Jersey’s Trap...
Table of Contents From the Editor—On the Other Hand: New Jersey’s “Other” Fluorescent Minerals—Part 1 by Howie Green 1–2 The Canfield Phosphate Mine by Stephen Tapsak 3–7 Lake Valhalla Diopside by Bob Batic 7–10 Beemerville Sodalite by Howie Green 11–14 The Lime Crest...
Table of Contents The Fluorescent Minerals of Broken Hill, NSW by Eric von Werstak 1–7 Hokkaidoite: A Comprehensive Introduction by Captain G. Vella 8–11 Fluorescent Calcite from Patagonia by Andrés Oteiza 12–21 The Santa Clara Valley Gem & Mineral Society Annual...